The American Hockey League today has suspended Binghamton Senators goaltender Robin Lehner for three games as a result of supplementary discipline following his game misconduct for abuse of an official in a game Saturday vs. Syracuse.

Lehner will miss Binghamton’s games Wednesday (Jan. 4) at Adirondack, Friday (Jan. 6) vs. Connecticut and Saturday (Jan. 7) vs. Rochester. He will next be eligible to play Jan. 13, when the Crunch visits Binghamton.

Lehner tussled with the ref while trying to reach Crunch goalie Jeff Deslauriers at the opposite end of the rink during an altercation involving several players. Deslauriers said he had no intention of joining the skirmish unless one of his teammates was double-teamed.

"I was looking if any of our guys was down. If the situation would have been different, then yeah, I would've gone and helped my teammates,'' Deslauriers said. "

Deslauriers said the last goalie fight he was involved in came in juniors. I asked him if he thought about skating out to meet Lehner halfway.

"Why would I go out?'' Deslauriers said. "What would that have accomplished? It wouldn't have changed anything in the game. My job is to stop the puck, not to show if I can fight.

"I had a good game. Why would I have tried to get injured? It's either you get injured or you injure somebody else. If he would have come to me, I would have had to protect myself.''